* October 18 – The Fraser Government is re-elected for a third consecutive term in Australia with a reduced majority.

According to Fraser, Kerr asked him whether, if he were commissioned Prime Minister, he could secure supply, would immediately thereafter advise a double-dissolution election, and would refrain from new policies and investigations of the Whitlam Government pending the election.

Fraser left to return to Parliament House, where he conferred with Coalition leaders, while Kerr joined the luncheon party which had been waiting for him, apologising to his guests and offering the excuse that he had been busy dismissing the Government.

In 1977, the Fraser Government proposed four constitutional amendments via referendum, three of which passed — the last time since that the Australian Constitution has been amended.

After the dismissal of the Whitlam Government, the Fraser Government established the Medibank Review Committee in January 1976.

On 1 October 1976, the Fraser Liberal Government passed the Medibank Private bill.

The Fraser Government is the only government in the world to have dismantled an existing universal health care system.

The major changes introduced by the Fraser Government were largely rejected by the Hawke Labor Government, which returned to the original Medibank model.

In October 1976, the Fraser Government introduced a 2. 5 % levy.

The Whitlam Government ended in 1975 with a dramatic constitutional crisis in which the Queen's representative, the Governor-General ( then John Kerr ), dismissed Whitlam and his entire ministry, appointing Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser in his place.

The feature was first recorded as General Darling Range by Charles Fraser, Government Botanist with Captain James Stirling aboard HMS Success in March 1827.

The Menzies Government ( 1949-1966 ) and Holt Government dismantled the legal barriers to multi-ethnic immigration and by the 1970s, the Whitlam and Fraser Governments were promoting multiculturalism.

The Australiana Fund, started by Tamie Fraser, used donations to collect Australian art and furniture for the four official residences – Government House and The Lodge in Canberra, and Admiralty House and Kirribilli House in Sydney.

Under the Fraser Liberal Government ( 1975 – 83 ), the degrees of Knight, Dame and Medal were added to the Order of Australia.

The Victorian council was singularly unimpressed that a rival Australia Day organisation had copied its idea – in 1978 it described its own winner, Dame Rae Roe, as ‘ the real Australian of the Year .’ The impasse was only resolved when the Fraser Government created the National Australia Day Council ( NADC ) in 1979.

Despite this rigorous approach, the panel ’ s first choice of historian Manning Clark did not please conservative politicians, as Clark had been critical of the Fraser Government ’ s social policy.

His mother, Carol Mary ( née Genereux ), was a sales counselor, and his father, Peter Fraser, was a former journalist who worked as a Canadian foreign service officer for the Government Office of Tourism .< ref name =" USA ">

After the defeat of the Fraser Government in 1983 and the election of Dr Harry Jenkins as Speaker, Sir Billy resigned from Parliament on 21 April 1983.

A statue of Fraser in the New Zealand Parliament Buildings # Government Buildings | Government Buildings Historic Reserve in Wellington.

Fraser, standing right, at the 1944 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting | Commonwealth Prime Ministers ' Conference.

He was ranked third in the First Labour Government, with only Savage and Peter Fraser above him.

* February 12 – British police raid ' Redlands ', the Sussex home of Keith Richards in the early hours of the morning following a tip-off about a party from the News of the World ; although no arrests are made at the time, Richards, Mick Jagger and art dealer Robert Fraser are subsequently charged with possession of drugs.

She subsequently married journalist Matthew Fraser, former Editor-in-Chief of the National Post and television host.

Fraser Kemp, writing in The Spectator, has subsequently dubbed her " the Iron Chipmunk ", a play on the phrase " Iron Lady ", often used to describe Margaret Thatcher.

They subsequently finished the album with Canadian Engineer / producer Mike Fraser, with a Japanese & US tour to follow in order to promote the record.

He subsequently taught briefly at Malaspina College in Nanaimo, British Columbia and Simon Fraser University in Burnaby.

He there developed the Stó: lō Halkomelem orthography which was subsequently adopted officially and is now in wide use throughout the Fraser Valley.

Her husband had been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1979 ( and subsequently elevated within the order to Knight Grand Cross ), entitling her to be addressed as Lady Fraser, however she now became Lady Marion Fraser in her own right.

The men's draws for that year were subsequently made up of second-string players, lucky losers and older players such as Neale Fraser, who reached the final of the men's doubles with fellow Australian John Cooper.

The company, by then House of Fraser plc, diversified into sports goods under the name of Astral Sports and Leisure ( subsequently sold to Sears plc owned Olympus Sport division ) and into funerals with Wylie & Lochhead.

He was created a Baronet, styled " of Dineiddwg in the County of Stirling ", in 1961, and was subsequently created Baron Fraser of Allander, of Dineiddwg in the County of Stirling, in 1964.

There are also about 1, 400 Aboriginal peoples, some from the Tsawwassen band, who still hold traditional lands on the Tsawwassen Indian Reserve as well as the Hwlitsum First Nation, at the mouth of the Fraser River.

The Whitlam Labor and Fraser Liberal Governments instigated the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, which, while limited to the Northern Territory, affirmed " inalienable " freehold title to some traditional lands.

A decrease in Fraser salmon catalyzed tension between the Canadian government and the Aboriginal peoples of the area.

Hells Gate became one of the most popular fishing stations along the Fraser River — pre-and post-colonial contact — where large numbers of Aboriginal locals, and eventually European settlers, congregated during the summer months to fish for migrating salmon.

As Salmon fishing at Hells Gate was so prolific that, as Matthew Evenden asserts, the Aboriginal culture along the Fraser River was built on a “ salmon economy .” After Simon Fraser charted the river in the early nineteenth century, it became ( and Hells Gate with it ) an established corridor between the Pacific Ocean and the interior of what was to become British Columbia.

The Aboriginal Land Rights ( Northern Territory ) Act 1976 was eventually passed by the Fraser Government on 16 December 1976 and began operation on Australia Day, that is 26 January 1977.

The Aboriginal Land Rights ( Northern Territory ) Act 1976 was eventually passed by the Fraser Government on 16 December 1976 and began operation on Australia Day, that is 26 January 1977.

He held various Ministerial appointments in the Fraser government, including Aboriginal Affairs.

Yale riding spanned both Yale and Kootenay Land Districts, that is to say, the entirety of the southern province from the Fraser Canyon to the Rockies.

House of Fraser set up BL Fraser, a 50 – 50 joint venture with the British Land Company, in 1999 to buy 15 House of Fraser stores that would continue to be operated by House of Fraser.

The official definition of the Yale District and Yale ridings ( that is, the original Yale riding, not the second ) is all of both the Yale and Kootenay Land Districts, which took in the whole of the province from the Fraser Canyon to the Rocky Mountains and including the Kamloops and Shuswap areas.